Multi-award winning author. "Doug Smith is, quite simply, the finest short-story writer Canada has ever produced in the science fiction and fantasy genres, and he's also the most prolific. His stories are a treasure trove of riches that will touch your heart while making you think." —Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Hominids and FlashForward "A great storyteller with a gifted and individual voice." —Charles de Lint "One of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction." —Library Journal "Smith paints his worlds so well that you are transported within a paragraph or two and remain in transit until the story ends." —Broken Pencil, The Magazine of Zine Culture and the Independent Arts "With every new story, the more impressed I am with [Smith's] subtlety and vision. I've yet to read a work of his that wasn't beautifully written, but more than that, his stories resonate with a deep understanding of the human condition as well as a characteristic wry wonder... Stories you can't forget, even years later." —Julie Czerneda, award-winning author and editor, SF Signal interview "Douglas Smith is an extraordinary author whom every lover of quality speculative fiction should read." —Fantasy Book Critic "Smith is definitely an author who deserves to be more widely read." —Strange Horizons "An ambitious and adventurous new writer." —Gardner Dozois, author and editor DESCRIPTION: A woman tries in vain to convince those around her that the world is ending. Is she right…or is just nothing? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Doug is an award-winning author of speculative fiction, with over a million words of fiction sold and over a hundred short story sales to professional markets in thirty countries and two dozen languages. He has published three short story collections: Chimerascope (ChiZine Publications, Canada, 2010), Impossibilia, (PS Publishing, UK, 2008), and just recently, La Danse des Esprits (Dreampress, France, 2011). Doug has twice won Canada's Aurora Award for speculative fiction, and have been a finalist for the international John W. Campbell Award, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation's Bookies Award, and the juried Sunburst Award.